My parents were desperately trying to become documented citizens of this country and tried very hard to get there, but to no avail.
Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.
I have to give moral support to my supporters. If I'm not going to fight anymore, that might hurt the feelings of my supporters. They are fighting for democracy. They are fighting for the rule of law.
Going through a long legal battle is not what you sign up for as a fighter.
Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.
Keep out of Chancery [English court] .... It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.
You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.
All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.
All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
